Thumper Testing in HD 60P

Camera testing for the Project Thumper video shoot. This is our new Contour1080HD camera shooting in full HD at 60P with various samples in project Thumper.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• The Geek Group
• Explosions
• Project
• Thumper
• Explode
• Detonate
• Boom
• Generator
• Flash
• Bang
• Energy
• Physics
• Capacitor
• Shockwave
• Science
• Fun
• Cool

[linuxpowerification]

what the fuck is this thing? O.o its scary!!!

[thegeekgroup]

@linuxpowerification It is The Geek Group's "Project Thumper" you can learn more about it at the website.

[msylvain59]

Next project: MegaThumper... destroying old trucks and locomotives with many terawatts of energy... (ultimate step will be the one for destroying scrap battleships... or the earth...)

[Mrdogdigger]

Are all those blue things in the cabinet capacitors?

[Mrdogdigger]

1:53 WTF!

[Heeimweired]

@Mrdogdigger yes



[williefleete]

@andyjwwalker78 its a bank of capacitors set up to dump its energy through a metallic victim on the contacts you see in the video. the caps are charged then the charge dumped when a button is pushed

[andyjwwalker78]

But what is it??

[TheFABKing]

Maybe one of those were,but have you ever put a Magnesium rod between the contacts ?

[ambuancewitchdoc]

"Will it fry" is about to get cooler.

[tmbomber383]

@zker666

About 200 joules per cap times 160 caps in the bank.

so about 32K joules.

[tmbomber383]

At 3:06 I said ouch.

It was because the test object that was placed near the arc fell off the table and broke.

(I was rather upset about that)